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Improve transit
Martin Horak’s column, Time to get moving on rapid transit in London (Nov. 9), makes perfect sense. London needs to catch up with the cities around us with a reliable and fast transit system.
Just having routes to White Oaks Mall and Fanshawe College is a waste of time. We need rapid transit up and down all the major crosstown streets with bus shelters every 500 metres and feeder routes into the adjacent suburb. Riders should be able hail these feeder route buses the same as a ride-sharing app so they are almost as handy as cars.
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Price it at $5 for an all-day pass and we solve the transit problem.
Allan W. Janssen, London
Ever a village
The city of New Orleans is the home of an incredible music and culinary scene and a rich history, which it celebrates. It has a population of 385,000. It has an NFL franchise, a domed stadium where Taylor Swift is playing, and a famous river.
London, with a population of 489,000, has a UNESCO designation as a City of Music. Which would you prefer to visit?
It’s not that London has no history, no interesting citizens past and present, no interesting architecture, no world-class hospitals and university.
But we have no rapid transit, no ring road. The transit system only serves students, not the workers who need it.
Continuing to focus on what can’t be done will ensure that nothing will ever be done. And London will remain a village, not even a town, let alone a city worth visiting.
Robert A. Patrick, London
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Censure needed
Regarding the column by Gwynne Dyer, Trump will be bad, but likely survivable (Nov. 9), in which he says: “The Roman empire survived for four centuries despite having many rulers worse than Donald Trump.”
I cannot believe The London Free Press would allow such an inflammatory comment by one of its own columnists.
David Nuttall, London
Fund the fight
In his letter to the editor Donate $200 (Nov. 9), Steve Matthews says: “There are better uses for the $3 billion this is estimated to cost.”
Indeed there are. When these Dougie dollars actually arrive, I and others I know plan to donate them to the fight to stop the building of Highway 413.
Carol Lewis, London
Worthy subject
Regarding the article ‘We don’t want to know about abused men’ (Nov. 9).
Finally, you have shed light on this shameful truth. This should be mandatory reading for everyone, especially the police, our members of parliament and our members of provincial parliament. Thank you for writing about this unrecognized, unpopular topic. I can only hope change and relief will follow as a result.
I know where my $200 from the Ontario government will be donated, I urge others to do the same.
Barry Mckeon, London
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